Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Except in the defence departments [Army, Navy, Air], no person shall in the future be ineligible for appointment to any place in the civil service by reason of the fact that military service was declined in the British forces on the ground of conscientious objection...
...Bellmore, L. I., potent station WEAF of the National Broadcasting Co. was silent for eight hours. Reason: a bat flew between some condenser plates, died there...
...Washington, U. S. Representative Andrew L. Somers of New York received the following letter from two of his Brooklyn constituents: "I would like to know if you could pass a bill providing for half pennys. The reason is that around our way they sell cakes 2 for five cents, (5?), one costs three cents. So if we could have half pennys we would only have to pay 2 and ½ cents. Thanking you in advance. Answer please. MORRIS RAPPAPORT. MILTON WINSTON...
...Detroit Stock Exchange one day last week Bank of Detroit opened 120 points higher than it had closed the night before. Union-Commerce Corp. varied 39 points during the day's trading. Other banks' stocks danced, jumped, oscillated. Half an hour after the market closed, the reason for these gyrations became evident. Officials of Guardian Detroit Group and Union-Commerce Corp.?two of Detroit's biggest banks ? announced their merger. Furthermore, the merged bank planned soon to acquire Bank of Detroit and eight smaller institutions in and around the city. With capital assets of $75,000,000, deposits...
...town girl, invited by reason of her convenient residence and morals, accuses a sophomore, falsely, of having gotten her with child. When she threatens blackmail, they scuffle. She falls, strikes her head against a fraternity andiron. Her opponent then hides the body in a closet and begins a futile, agonizing pantomime of ease. Brought to trial between the acts, he is acquitted. His brotherly friends prevent him from suicide, dispel his remorse...